On June 20, 2025, Ambassador Cai Ge, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People’s Republic of China to the Slovak Republic paid a courtesy visit to the new president of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Dr. Martin Wenhart. The two sides exchanged views on further promoting China-Slovakia scientific and technological cooperation.

Ambassador Cai congratulated Wen on his election as the new president of the SAS, and said that China attachs great importance to scientific and technological innovation, regards science and technology as the first productive force, talents as the first resource, and innovation as the first driving force. In recent years, China had made great progress in many fields such as new energy, new materials, and artificial intelligence. China and Slovakia enjoy traditional friendship. Last November, Prime Minister Fico successfully visited China and the two countries established strategic partnership, which brings about important opportunities for cooperation in various fields. It is hoped that the scientific research institutions from both sides would take this opportunity to continue strengthening exchanges and cooperation and promoting scientific and technological achievements to a higher level, so as to better benefit the people of the two countries.

Dr. Wenhart praised China's achievements in scientific innovation and said that the Academy of Sciences of Slovakia is looking forward to strengthening ties with Chinese scientific research institutions and universities, to carry out various forms of cooperation including basic science, continuously deepening exchanges and mutual learning in the field of science and technology between the two sides.